Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-07-20
BEAT THE RECORD.

WASHINGTON, July 1S.-The thermome
ter to-day beat all previous records in tn,
month of July since the establishment o
the Signal Service by climbing to the maxi
mum OF 1923 degrees. The only day il
any month since the Weather Bureau was
established in which higher temperature
than to-day has been recorded was the 7tl
OF September. 1881, when the mercury
reached 1O4 degrees. There we're fifteen
cases OF prostration and five of them are
known to have been fatal. shower ol
| rain cooled the atmosphere. It is notice.
able feature that the heat for the past few
days has been hot, parching winds that
swept like siroccos through the city.
A SIGNAL STATEMENT.
General Greeley gave the following ex.
PLANTATION of this occurrence to Post re-
porter: There is fair weather west of
Washington as far as the Mississippi
river, and the temperature all along the
line was as high at given o'clock this
morning as it was in Washington. Some
places it was higher. At st. Louis at 6
O'Clock it was "a degrees. or one degree
more than at Washington at o'clock.
This means that the sun shone down from
an unobstructed sky upon the great body
of an already superheated surface. As the
day advanced the atmosphere became
hotter and hotter.
AND STORMS ALSO.
READING, Pa, July 1S.-The telephone
and telegraph lines having been prostrated.
particulars OF the damage done in this vi
cinity by the terrific storms Sunday were
not received until this afternoon. The
crops were destroyed, several buildings were
burned by lightning and one man was
killed.
HOTTEST KNOWN.
LYNcHBURe, Va, July 18.-This is the
hottest day ever recorded in this city. The
thermometer at 2 p. m. registered LOG in
the shade. Business is practically sus-
pended.
AT CINCINNATI.
CINCINNATI, July 17.-Tbere were reported
up to midnight forty-five cases OF sunstroke
in the city to-day, OF which eighteen were
fatal. At midnight there were numerous
additional calls for patrol wagons for new
cases. The mercury on the street during
most of the day ranged from 100 to 164,
and the air was very still. People tonight
are standing, sitting and even sleeping on
the sidewalks, and the hospitals are filling
up fast with patients.
TERRIBLE FATALITY IN CHICAGO.
CHICAGO, July 1s.-One hundred and
thirty.fv deaths, mostly caused by sun
stroke, are already on the Coroner's book,
and new cases are coming in every few
minutes. The thermometer to-day ranged
from S5 to 30 degrees, and the weather is
close and sultry.
AT PHILADELPHIA.
PHILADELPHIA, July 17.-With the single
exception OF July ., 1876. to-day has been
the hottest for over thirty five years. At
2 o'clock this afternoon the thermometer
registered 1O2 degrees in the shade. being
lust degree less than that of July 8, 1876,
and X greater than yesterday. Up to a
late hour tonight about thirty cases OF
sunstroke occurred, four OF which resulted
fatally.
PHILADELPHIA, July 18.-The thermome-
ter at noon registered 95 degrees. Up to
that hour six deaths from supstroke had
occurred to-day. There were eighteen
deaths yesterday and five on Saturday.
THE SITUATION TO-DAY.
CINCINNATI July 1S.-The heat continues
almost unabated. At noon the signal SER
vice observer reported that the thImome-
ter registered 81 degrees. There hal been
sixteen prostrations to-day already and
six deaths.
AT PITTSBURG.
PlrrsBuRe, July 1S.-A good breeze and
slight drop in the temperature made life
more endurable to-day, although the death
rate ia the largest known in years. The
mercury at D. m. was rising with 81 in the
shade. At the same hour yesterday it was
100, Seventeen deaths from heat are re-
ported.